Word: shagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After months of White House turmoil and indecision, observers are begining to wonder: When will Hillary Rodham Clinton settle on a hairstyle? Above, from last year's no-nonsense, working-mom shag to last week's short-lived Betty Crocker-style coif. Below, the control sample: Barbara Bush's styles over a similar time span
...Your Hair, your stylist will not only give you advice on whether you should get a bob or a shag; she'll help you plan that dream getaway to Martinique...
...salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern end of the Shetlands' main island, coating crops and flocks of sheep as well as people. Fish and other sea life were found dead...
...Teardrop Explodes broke up in 1983 (although not before recording enough new material for the posthumous and unlistenable Everybody Wants to Shag The Teardrop Explodes, thankfully unrepresented here), and Cope was free to pursue his solo career. "I regard what I want to do next as an opportunity for gross self-indulgence," Cope said at the time, and spent the next four years fulfilling that promise. The songs here, happily, avoid the worst of the excess; the pleasantly catchy "An Elegant Chaos" captures the flavor of the period, and "Sunspots," Iyrically a doodle, is worth listening to if only...
...sadly witty about individuals as about their troubled nation. Here is Kramer in The Song Dog, surveying the wares at a rundown country store: "On the crowded shelf of cigarettes and pipe tobacco, he saw, for the first time in years, the little cotton bags of shag his father had smoked to excess, so crude it came complete with tobacco stalks. Good stuff, that shag: it had given the old bastard the long, lingering, thoroughly horrible death he'd deserved." Nothing more is said about that father-son relationship -- and nothing is needed. That is characteristic of the eight novels...